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cfvr
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject: Setting system time correctly |
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Hi,
I'm new to Gentoo (and Linux for that matter  ) and I have a problem setting the system time correctly. My Clock isn't erratic as I've read lots of times, it runs smoothly, but it's in the wrong timezone and runs exactly 2 hours ahead.
I have made a symlink to my zoneinfo in /etc/:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 23 14:36 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
(I live in amsterdam)
I have changed CLOCK="UTC" in /etc/rc.conf to CLOCK="local"
Then I restarted the clock daemon (etc/init.d/clock)
I installed and configured openntpd and started it to the default runtime using rc-update, I can start and stop /etc/init.d/openntpd succesfully, but when i type 'date' it says 'Thu Sep 23 17:10:19 CEST 2004'
And that's not the correct timezone! The tclock is running 2 hours fast, what can I do to correct this?
I tried Google, Gentoo docs, the forum, I even called grandma  no answers  |
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asph
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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emerge rdate && rdate -s time.nist.gov
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TrueDFX
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | And that's not the correct timezone! |
The timezone isn't your problem. CEST is Central European Summer Time, which is what we use here (I'm in the NL too) half the year. The problem is that your time doesn't get synced with openntpd (by default, anyway). |
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cfvr
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Ah! i already looked through the man pages of date, but completely missed it ok so the timezone correct, tnxs for the info
I can't seem to get openntpd working, so I'm emerging ntp.. 40Megs, 26 packages!! Isn't that a bit large just for synchronizing the system time? |
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TrueDFX
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| cfvr wrote: | | I can't seem to get openntpd working, so I'm emerging ntp.. 40Megs, 26 packages!! Isn't that a bit large just for synchronizing the system time? |
| nastassja wrote: | | emerge rdate && rdate -s time.nist.gov |
rdate doesn't need a whole lot. |
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cfvr
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like you can't daemonize rdate though.. ah well, i can make a cronjob for rdate -s ntp.xs4all.nl
I've got myself a new challenge learning cron
Thanks for the help! |
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BlackEdder
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Location: Dutch enclave in Egham, UK
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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I use getdate instead of rdate:
as root: crontab -e
0 20 * * * getdate -set 10 3800 ntp2.xs4all.nl |
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inode77
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Joined: 20 Jan 2004
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Location: Heart of Europe
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.32012 installed on Sun Sep 19 16:22:23 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
# minute (0-59),
# | hour (0-23),
# | | day of the month (1-31),
# | | | month of the year (1-12),
# | | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
# | | | | | commands
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0 10 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s swisstime.ee.ethz.ch &> /dev/null
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0 20 * * 3 /usr/sbin/eupdatedb &> /dev/null
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Nothing to learn really just write and you'll be fine. (Oh yeah there's one thing make sure no output to stdout is generated.) |
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